THE Lusaka High Court has convicted, pending sentencing, a Lusaka resident who caused the death of former Kabwata UPND MP Levy Mkandawire through dangerous driving in November last year. Judge Ruth Chibbabbuka convicted Alick Kalengo, 51, upon his own admission of guilt and reserved sentencing to today. Kalengo is charged with causing death by dangerous...

SOCIALIST Party deputy general secretary Dr Fred M’membe says the UPND government has allowed Anglo-American to return to Zambia despite all the destruction it caused, describing the administration as a puppet regime. And Dr M’membe says everyone who commits a crime must be prosecuted, but it should be a fair prosecution. Speaking when he was...

NEW Heritage Party president Chishala Kateka says she keeps seeing a lack of planning in everything the new dawn government is doing, like in the recruitment exercise of teachers and health workers as well as the CDF. And Kateka says a lot of people join the ruling party in order to get government contracts or...

OPEN Spaces Zambia has observed that despite the change of government, freedom of expression is getting narrowed day by day, mostly due to existing laws such as defamation of the President. The organisation has since asked the Zambia Law Development Commission to quicken the law review process, of laws like the defamation of the president...

MINISTER of Finance and National Planning Dr Situmbeko Musokotwane says Lazard Freres, an advisory board which was contracted by PF to help restructure Zambia's debt, is still active and some of the milestones achieved so far can be attributed to them. Recently, economist Trevor Hambayi challenged government to update the nation on what Lazard Freres...

PF acting president Given Lubinda has pleaded not guilty to four counts of being in possession of property reasonably suspected to be proceeds of crime. Lubinda, who is former Kabwata PF member of parliament, took plea before Lusaka magistrate Sanford Ngobola yesterday after the charges were read out to him. Magistrate Ngobola entered pleas of...

DEPUTY Secretary to Cabinet in charge of administration Dr Oliver Kalabo has urged the Anti-Corruption Commission to up its game in preventing the loss of huge sums of money to corruption. Addressing senior ACC staff during the official opening of a management training course, Monday, Dr Kabalo said government was talking to various partners to...

UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima says 50,000 people contract HIV annually in Zambia, and this can be prevented. And Byanyima says she has great admiration for the path Zambia has taken as well as its leadership. Speaking during ZNBC's Sunday Interview, Byanyima said Zambia needed to drastically reduce the number of HIV infections because the...

THERE was drama at the National Housing Empowerment Fund (NHEF) head office yesterday when angry clients threatened to beat up the company's project director Kamphelembe Ngulube who was at pains to justify selling them 'non-existent' land. Some clients talked to expressed anger at the fact that the name of the empowerment fund sounded like it...

THE Ministry of Finance and National Planning has announced that International Monetary Fund (IMF) Deputy Managing Director Antoinette Sayeh will visit Zambia from June 14 to 15, to hold discussions with government. According to a statement issued by the Ministry, Monday, the high-level talks between the IMF and government would focus on recent economic developments,...